Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
BOARDING THE LION.
The MObbing of O'Brien by Excited and
Lawless Orangemen.

The Mobbing of OBrien by Excited and
Lawless Orangemen.
KINGSTON, Ont, May 21.-At Ottawa
this morning Editor O'Brien paid visit
to the university, where he received an
ovation and address from the students.
Mr. O'Brien replied in pleasing and fiat
tering vein. The party then drove to the
station to catch the train leaving at 1895
for Kingston, where it was said the Orange
men were arranging to give another
swarm" reception to the party. In the
same car with O'Brien were Lady Mac
donald, wife of the Canadian Premier, and
Sir Leonard Tilley, the Lieutenant-Gover-
nor OF New Brunswick. Fifty miles out
from here the Kingston Reception Commit
tee met the train and returned here with
the party. AS the train slowed up or
Place des Armes it was seen that a
LARGE CROWD WAS ASSEMBLED
there. As O'Brien stepped out OF the car
he was in the much-talked-of Kingston,
1.-The Kerry of Canada" Kingston has a
population OF Is, 900, of whom 5000 are
Catholics. There are only eight policemen,
and all of them, in command of Chief
Horsey, we're in waiting. To the surprise
of O. Brien, not DISCONTINUED voice was
heard in the storm OF cheers which arose.
The party was driven to the Burnett house,
where crowd assembled and cheered the
editor. Battery A of the Dominion regu-
lar artillery corps, and 14th prince
of Wales Own) rifles were held in the arno-
ries for emergencies, besides a large number
OF special constables and the ordinary
police force. Arriving at the skating rink
where the meeting was to be held the crowd
all O'Brien sympathizers. were found
gathered around the building. The police.
men,
ARMED WITH REvOLvERS,
moved up and down and forbade anybody
to block up the entrance to the hall
O O'Brien, in his opening remarks. ~on at
once the Ulster Protestants who were list.
ening, and who form d large proportion ol
the population, when he asserted that the
Orange farmers in the north of Ireland are
as much oppressed as the Catholics, and
that Lansdowne is championing the cause
of these despotic landlords who were
causing the oppression. my mission is
not to stir up strife, but to
BLEND ORANGE AND GREEN
This sentiment won over the Ulster farm.
ers, and they cheered as heartily as any.
body else. A,ain O'Brien said: "We will
so humlllate LansdOWne IN exposing bis
murderous policy in Ireland as to make
Orangemen as we'll as Nationalists all be.
lieve that there is Only one Lord, He who
rules the cedars and the stars" Among
other things he said, II believe the few mis-.
understandings which have arisen between
the Protestant and Catholic Irishmen will
very soon pass away. The unexpect d
and somewhat ominous calm was now for
the first time broken at o:3O O'Clock,
when Kilbride began his statement. Then
the first noise wac heard outside, where
several hundred men collected, crying
"soD SAVE THE QUEEN"
and groaning for O'Brien. Every cheer that
went up inside toe hall was answered by a
loud roar and angry response from WITH
out. The crowd outside was now swollen
to immense proportions. The meeting wae
brought to an end by few remarks from
the chairman, who told the audience to 60
home peaceably. Then the people started
out, O'Brien being in the rear. Thinking
this to be too remarkable o Brien' g friends
hurried him to the front. He stepped on
the sidewalk wearing the usual tall hat
The moment the Orangemen on the op-
posite side of the street saw him
THEY RAISED SAVAGE YELLs
and cries of there he is" and rushed across
tbs street. Cobblestones and bricks began